CaptainRyannn

Member since 8/4/2008, last signed in awhile ago.

"I like to keep my life simple and my mind complex."

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Well, to start things off, my name is Ryan. I live in a small village in Wisconsin. Thankfully, there's a few independent theaters not too far from me and through the magic of Netflix and the internet, I'm able to see quite a bit of films. I'm into all sorts. I don't discriminate against decade, language, or genre. Well, maybe romantic comedies I could do without. I'm still not quite sure what I'd like for myself in regards for the future. I think either a film critic or a film maker would fit quite aptly. I'm here to get to know more of you and find some new films to check out so if you'd like, talk with me. I'd love to carry on a good conversation.

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Interested in:Avant-garde / Experimental, Crime, Drama, Film, TV & Radio, Horror, Thriller, Western

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Re:Worst Movie Ever Presents: W ...
By CaptainRyannn in Worst Movie Ever
"For my 16th. birthday, my sister got me a 25 dollar gift certificate to Usinger Sausage products. That's not even the worst of it. I had been vegetarian for over a year and a half and my niece thought it'd be funny if she told her I loved the stuff. Though it wasn't intentional, it definitely has been the worst gift I've ever received. " [More]

Re:DVD Box Set Giveaway
By CaptainRyannn in Filmgaming
"1. Revolutionary Road - I liked it. It reminded me a lot of how me and my first husband's marriage went down the drain. 2. Slumdog Millionaire - I don't remember much of what happened but I was telling all the girls at the spa how he jumped in the poo! Oh lordy, they just about died! 3. Burn After Reading - Now, I don't approve of their excessive potty mouths, but I suppose I'm able to forget that because George Clooney was just so gosh darn cute! 4. The Wrestler - My third husband was really into all of that wrestling garbage. This was neat but it's still just a bunch of men running around in silly little tights. 5. Synecdoche, New York - I tried to follow along, I really did. But the house on fire just went too far. Was this supposed to make sense? I didn't care too much for the sex scenes with the main guy; now if he were George Clooney, that'd be a different story. " [More]

Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds Review
By CaptainRyannn in CaptainRyannn Blog
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"When I first saw the trailer, I must say, I wasn’t too impressed with it. It didn’t really feel like a movie that I would be moved by despite its overt advertising as a moving film. I then watched an interview with Will Smith on Jay Leno and from the way they were talking, it really seemed like they were onto something here. Now, I’m not sure if it was that which finally pushed me to see this, me wanting to see as many 2008 films as I can in order to create a ‘Best of’ year end list, or the fact that I’ve been listening to DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s album, Homebase, almost every morning for the past week. (Man, that’s such a great album.) Whatever it was, I went into it with neither high nor low expectations. We enter the film with a shot of Ben Thomas, played by Will Smith, on the phone with 911. He calls for an ambulance and reports a suicide. When the paramedic asks who the victim is, he says in a crisp, decisive voice ... " [More]

Cross Reference List Suggestion.
By CaptainRyannn in Spout Feedback
"I think it'd be pretty handy to be able to view titles that are more in one list. Perhaps there could be a drop down box at the top where your lists would show up and you could check to see all the titles that are in each of the selected lists. " [More]

Into the Wild

Into the Wild.
By CaptainRyannn in CaptainRyannn Blog
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"Being one of my most anticipated films of 2007, Into the Wild held up to my high expectations. Robbed of a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, Into the Wild was possibly on of the most poetic movies I’ve seen that has dealt with teenage angst, human and nature interactions, and the idea of ultimate freedom in such a beautiful way. Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsche) is sick of living by society’s rules. After graduating from college, he hits the road in a quest for absolute freedom. He burns his social security card, cuts up his credit cards, and gives his life savings away to charity. He then sets out on the road where he meets a bunch of people that support him and his quest to reach Alaska. Along they way, he runs into a hippie couple who are on the road like him, a farmer who puts him to work, and an old man who wishes he was young again. While the ‘present’ of the film is set on the Magic Bus in an Alaskan forest, the bulk of the film is through flashba ... " [More]

Battle Royale

Bland Tale of Revenge.
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"I’ll admit, the only reason I went to go see Death Race is because I wanted to get out of the house and my dad just so happened to want to go see this, so I agreed. I knew I wasn’t going to get anything mind-blowing or revolutionary, but rather some dirty, bloody entertainment. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much of that either. Jason Statham is back in, surprise surprise, another bland cliché action role. He plays Jensen Ames, former professional racecar driver, turned loving father / husband. That is until his wife is murdered and he is put to jail for it. (You know, just once, I’d like to see a protagonist actually go to jail for a crime he / she did commit. Enough with this “I was setup.” bullshit.” Anyway, he lands himself into a prison where an annual race is held where prisoners have the chance to earn their freedom. They compete in a three-part race and the first to win five races in a row gets to walk free. The event is broadca ... " [More]

Death Race

Hustle & Flow

A Pimp's Tale.
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"You know it’s hard out here for a pimp, when you’re trying to get the money for the rent. For the Cadillac and gas money’s spent, there’s a whole lot of bitches jumping ship. In the Oscar-winning song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”, the lyrics tell the viewer the very essence of the film. This is the story of a hustler and a drug dealer, Djay (Terrence Howard), who is having a mid-life crisis. Tired of the same routine, he buys a keyboard and discovers that he wants to become a rapper. With his old high school pal, Key (Anthony Anderson), and the white boy with beats (DJ Qualls), he builds a make-shift home studio and begins his quest to become the next great thing. With hardships and hoes working against him around every corner, Djay struggles to maintain his “mode” and push that “good shit out” in time for a party that famed rapper Skinny Black (Ludacris) will be at in town. The reason I liked this movie so much i ... " [More]

George Washington

Not Quite a White guy in the 17 ...
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"After falling in love with David Gordon Green’s Undertow, I checked out some of his other films. George Washington was first on the list because I saw that it was also part of the Criterion Collection. George Washington is not about a white man from the mid-1700’s, but rather a group of children set in a small, rural southern town. With not much to do, they spend their days wandering around the broken community and have conversations that form into a collage of innocence. After a tragedy happens amongst the group, they all come together and attempt to cover it up which leads to their individual quests for redemption. In one of the most poetically beautiful films I’ve seen recently, David Gordon Green tells the heartbreaking story of kids who are forced to enter the adult world early and make decisions that they shouldn’t have to make. Although I’m sure not everyone has had to go through what the kids in the film had to go through, I believe it is the p ... " [More]

Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz not hot enough.
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"After reading all the great reviews and quite the high rating on IMdb (8.00 / 10), I decided to give Hot Fuzz another chance. Unlike Bonnie and Clyde where my mind was completely changed, my thoughts on Hot Fuzz did not. I found the humor cheap and the plot annoying. It starts off with Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) who is literally too good and seems to make the rest of the London Police Department look bad. Solution? Send him off to the country. Once he gets there, he discovers that the town has the lowest crime-rate in the country which he feels is pretty suspicious. Soon, people start dying off in gruesome ‘accidents’ but Nicholas is convinced that things aren’t really quite what they seem to be. It’s a plot that has been done many times before and many times better. But I feel like I’m in the minority of this so perhaps I just don’t “get it” but if you’re down for a pretty flat action / comedy, check it out. " [More]

Bonnie and Clyde

Two Crime Legends.
By CaptainRyannn in CaptainRyannn Blog
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"Considered by many to be one of the groundbreaking films of the 60’s, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde offers a romanticized vision of two of the most famous outlaws in American History. A bored, small-town girl, Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunnaway), meets up with recently released bank robber, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beaty), and they set off across the Midwest robbing banks and on the run from the law. They team up with gas station clerk, (Michael Pollard), Clyde’s brother, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his nuisance of a wife (Estelle Parsons) during the journey and that’s when things start to turn bad. Ultimately, this is a road movie. It’s about average people caught up in the life of crime and on the run from authorities. When I first saw this a few years ago, I hated it. I couldn’t understand for the life of me what made this thing so special. Like many movies however, you have to mature into the right state-of-mind and after a second viewing, your mind coul ... " [More]

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading
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"Well, let me start off by saying that I originally saw this two weeks ago and loved it. So I decided to go back and see it again. The Coen Brothers seem to have formed a pattern that has worked for them over the years. After putting out a serious film, the switch gears to a comedy one. Blood Simple brought Raising Arizona. Miller’s Crossing brought The Hudsucker Proxy. Fargro brought The Big Lebowski. The Man Who Wasn’t There brought Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers (both of which kind of sucked.). Now, it is fitting that after their most acclaimed film, they up the ante for their newest comedy, Burn After Reading. With the zoom-in effect used to open the film, we are given the impression that something important is happening. Well, it is important in the sense that without it, we would not have a film. But it’s so trivial because of it’s cause. CIA agent Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) gets demoted for too much drinking. We immediately get a glimpse in ... " [More]

Hatchet

Hatchet.
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"Sometimes, I don’t know whether to rate a movie based on how good it was or how much I enjoyed it. If the latter were true, it’d be a 25 / 10. This movie had me screaming ‘fuck yeah!’ more than most anything I’ve seen this year. Since it’s release, the tagline for it has always stuck with me; Old School American Horror. I wasn’t quite sure that that meant. I must admit, I was initially turned away from it because it was listed as comedy / horror for its genre and previous titles with this listing such as The Tripper and Severance just downright sucked. I decided ‘what the hell’ and watched it anyway. It opens with a pretty recycled scene, two characters having a good time in the middle of nowhere. These two characters happen to be horror legend, Robert Englund and some other guy and the location; a swamp. We see something come out of the water and pretty much tear them to shit. As most horror movies, this is the initial set-up. ... " [More]